Exploring Putative Factors Affective Prospective Students’ of the University for Development Students: A Case Study of the Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Consumer Sciences, Nyankpala Campus-Ghana

The expansion of the higher education industry has caused a tremendous increase in number and type colleges, polytechnics universities offering similar academic programmes Ghana. As consequence, competition makes it critical for leadership managers to deploy strategies that would influence students’ choice institution programme selection. paper is an exploratory study designed identify important factors university particularly programme. Data was collected through telephone interviews with students who were offered admissions pursue agricultural related courses Faculty Agriculture, Food Consumer Sciences University Development Studies. About 320 randomly selected from 1280 admission faculty 2021/20222 Academic Year. data analyzed using descriptive statistics presented graphs tables. found 53.75% respondents declined their offer Agriculture programs because not It further identified most those had applied health where they sure after completion could easily be employed. therefore, recommends educate prospective on job prospects, opportunities benefits pursuing programmes. Government should also put place measures attract graduate youth into Agricultural entrepreneurship.